Name: In-Store: Storytime w/ Sarah Jacoby: The Coziest Place on the Moon
Start: 2025-11-22T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-22T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Storytime w\/ Sarah Jacoby: The Coziest Place on the Moon$

"A loving acknowledgement of the joys of being 'happy-alone,' told with care and delicious language." —Kirkus Reviews
About this Event

Event guidelines:

RSVP is highly encouraged but not required.
Additional copies of the event book will be available for purchase in-store.
The reading will be followed by a book signing.
As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

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From Marginalian creator Maria Popova and acclaimed illustrator Sarah Jacoby comes this gorgeous picture book about the dark side of the moon, and creative solitude as an antidote to loneliness.

Feeling like the loneliest creature on Earth, Re decides to go live in the coziest place on the moon. Re packs a suitcase and takes off on a beam of light, shooting out into the cosmic aloneness of space.

Re's aim is to go into the cozy nook that the moon is said to possess. But shortly after arriving, Re makes a surprising discovery: Re is not alone. Indeed, another lonely soul has beaten Re there! And so, Re meets Mi, and while each lives in their own chamber of the nook, these two single souls still become, at times, a kind of togetherness.

Each remains alone but less lonely, and now each can watch over the solitude of the other. Moreover, on certain nights, the solitary songs of them both might be heard cadencing the night together, in harmony, across the vast and starry sky.

Sarah Jacoby is the award-winning author and illustrator of such picture books as Doris, Can I Sit with You?, and Forever or a Day. Her work is mostly book-oriented these days, though she has worked with folks like The New York Times and The Washington Post. Jacoby’s work is evocative and delightfully unexpected, playful and effortlessly profound. Her work is characterized by a deeply felt empathy, a keenly observant eye, and an intuitive ability to capture and convey what it means to think, feel, and be in this world as a human. She lives and works in a little row home in Philadelphia.